The year 2020 has hurled unprecedented challenges at us. We have responded with unprecedented changes in the ways we work, study and play. But these changes — substituting connectivity for physical presence — have had massive unintended consequences.

One of the most important consequences has been to move the devices we use (PCs, primarily) off the physical premises of our workplaces and schools, exposing them to whole new categories of attacks. And through the PCs, it has made enterprise and institutional data centers more vulnerable as well. Realizing this stark fact, PC vendors are beginning to appreciate security as a powerful differentiator.

Once, we counted on antivirus software to protect us. But at this new level of risk, antivirus software just isn’t enough. We must take a whole-system approach to defense, from the user to the peripheral devices in the PC to the CPU.

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